Hello all,
I was just wondering if there are any Space Shuttle or any Rocket launch videos out there? I can't seem to find any. I would love some Space Shuttle videos especially. I'm looking mostly for a video that shows the Space Shuttles point of view during liftoff rather than a ground camera view. Any info would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Yeah, especially if you find the videos from angles that weren't shown on live TV. You can get a little bit of a better idea of the progression of events that way. TV cuts to several different views of the Shuttle right before the explosion, and it's the most common video of the launch, unfortunately.

In about the seventh second of this video, you see a lot of debris falling off, is this the foam that they talk about falling off that they are all worried about these days?
You can also see it falling in the video that is looking down.

Quoting DLSLC (Reply 13):In about the seventh second of this video, you see a lot of debris falling off, is this the foam that they talk about falling off that they are all worried about these days?

No those are the "Tyvex covers" that cover the nozzles of the Reaction Control System jets while the vehicle is on the pad to keep rain out of them. These covers used to be plain old butcher paper, but NASA changed them when they found they could be a debris threat post-Columbia. The very low-mass Tyvex covers jettison while the vehicle is moving too slowly to pose a threat.

You can see one of them floating past Discovery's nose in this launch photo. It is casting a shadow on the nose just forward of the window in the round crew hatch.

Quoting Thorny (Reply 14):No those are the "Tyvex covers" that cover the nozzles of the Reaction Control System jets while the vehicle is on the pad to keep rain out of them. These covers used to be plain old butcher paper, but NASA changed them when they found they could be a debris threat post-Columbia. The very low-mass Tyvex covers jettison while the vehicle is moving too slowly to pose a threat.

One slight correction: those are Tyvek covers. It's basically the same stuff that they use to wrap new houses with.